From: Ross Ihaka <ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:47:56 +1300 (NZDT)
Message-Id: <199612110247.PAA27450@stat13.stat.auckland.ac.nz>
To: R-testers mailing list <R-testers@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Subject: R-alpha: Making x[["a"]]<-NULL work
I have been making some changes so that
x[["a"]]<-NULL
remove the component labelled "a" from the list x.
The semantics of this seems wrong to me. I think that
x["a"] <- NULL
should get rid of the component and
x[["a"]] <- NULL
should set the "a"th component to NULL.
However, in the spirit of bug reproduction I will do it the S way.
In S, x["a"] <- NULL is a no-op. Should we imitate this?
Ross
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